🎅🎄 Short Holiday Edition!
🔗 Last week’s most-clicked link: Cybertruck LV board review.
Interesting Links (🎄🎅 Edition!):
In a twinkling workshop, one winter night,
Santa crafted "The Analog," a beacon of light.
To engineers around the world, it flew with cheer,
Spreading warmth and joy, year after year.
This tale of creation, under the starry sky,
Reminds us of the joy in each circuit and wire.
In the magic of tech, on this festive night,
Shines the spirit of Christmas, ever so bright.
Thank you to all our readers and Happy Holidays. Our next issue will go out on 1/2/24, where we will do a best-of 2023 year-in-review!
- An open source Raspberry Pi RGB lighting controller that can handle some pretty extreme projects. PiLit allows you to control RGB pixels and relays with WiFi-enabled Arduino-compatible controllers.
- “What Every EE Student Must Know” – light holiday reading from former UBuffalo PhD student, Ali Al Qaraghuli. Guide to types of EE, paths to internships, and joining industry organizations. Pulled from another amazing resource – free ECE textbooks from UMich!
- A neural implant inspired by the shape of a christmas tree. The probe is inserted as a vertical shank, and the electrodes then emerge laterally as ‘branches’ to detect neurons.
- World’s smallest Christmas tree at ~20um (2-3x smaller than a human hair). The University of Glasgow also made the World’s smallest Christmas Card, which they then colored by plasmon resonance in a patterned aluminum film.
- The thinnest Christmas tree ever fabricated. Made using graphene that was actually transferred from one roll onto its substrate using terahertz radiation. It is just one carbon atom wide but 14cm long.
- A cool microfluidic device called a “two-inlet Christmas tree gradient”. Best thought of in signal processing terms the device produces a flow with a stepped output of concentration between the two fluids at each inlet. Detailed breakdown of two-dimensional matrix gradient here.
- For anyone questioning the existence of Santa Clause, this blog gives a quick overview of how he is detected by NORAD. From the North Warning System to the orchestrated handover between CF-18 and F15/16 fighters.
- An electrification study considering hypothetical EV reindeer vs hypothetical ICE reindeer. Simulating a delivery pattern over NYC EV’s had 55% fewer emissions vs their ICE reindeer counterparts. The impact of charging capacity was also investigated, with just seven additional charging stations yielding a 35% decrease in total downtime.
One Interesting Picture 📸: A 20um Christmas Card etched onto glass at the University of Glasgow.
